Sunday, February 27, 2011

Perfect size!

One very slow winter day when I was a nanny, the three children in the family suddenly discovered that they fit into the bottom cupboards in the kitchen.

Alex (age 7), Brian (3.5) and James (5.5), for those of you who don't know them, circa 2004.

It was a really fun day. There were lots of em with these three.

So now I'm a parent and Kendra is starting to approach the age that the youngest child was when I came to work for them (Brian was exactly 2 and a half when I started) so I'm starting to be able to compare her to them.

But she discovered how perfectly-sized the kitchen cupboards are a little earlier...

...and now it's her favorite little place to go get away from it all.

"MOM! How'd you find me??"

It's an exclusive place.

"I better see what she's doing with that camera..."

But then it's time to get back to business...

I purposefully pretty much only keep tupperware in that cabinet because we've just been too lazy to baby-proof it and it entertains her endlessly while I'm doing dishes or cooking dinner.

She's also out of the stage where exploring things means immediately putting it in her mouth, so it's much less disgusting than it was about a year ago.